To Type, Shoot Straight, and Speak the Truth...

So I found my little “Taiwan Telephone Pickup” that I had bought at Radio Shack in the 1990’s, an induction microphone at the end of a rubber sucker that you’d suction onto an oldschool telephone handset when you wanted to record a call. No respectable Crank Yanker would be without one back then, but being […]

No mail in awhile so I designed and ordered some new stampers, including larger chop stamps for Type Pals lucky enough to mail me while I have them in stock. I’ll have to see if they’re better than the 1/4″ square ones.I redesigned the Mail Call stampers for single-color stamping, as I’m using 3 stampers […]

Well, I took all these photos on the toy “Loopy Peace” camera and gave out the resulting thermal photos, which was fun. These are the color digital copies that the camera saves on the card. They’re pretty awful, but here they are, mixed in randomly with typings gathered up after the event in a sort […]

Currently in the Eyeholes:

From the Cutting Room floor…

And tonight, the old computers in the house get Linux Mint XFCE on ’em, and “easyfied” setup with a browser with her account-wide saved settings and little else. the existing laptop is too old for Win 11, and I wouldn’t curse my worst enemy with that nonsense, so we make the old machine safe to […]

Reports from the Field Mission, scanned on phone. Not ideal, but it works in a pinch.. Rain. This is a thing I’ve seen where I come from. It’s infrequent, but I know it exists So, this “Snow” thing actually exists – confirmed! It’s like rain, but doesn’t get you wet as fast as rain does, […]

I’ve scanned all my material from the Chandler Type-In yesterday, and will work on the Report while I’m traveling, worry not! Just imagine the mail call post in two weeks, when I come home to all the mail stacked on my desk! :D

My advice to Joe now that he has joined the ranks of Gentlemen with Canes.

It’s been a bit over 24 hours since I set up Pi-Hole on the $3.50 Raspberry Pi 3B and I have learned some interesting things. The first thing I learned was how much unwanted activity was happening on certain devices on my home network. Over the past day, devices, computers and phones attached to my […]

Block ads at home with Pi-hole.

Currently in the Eyeholes:

So I was poking around the Phomemo M02 thermal printer’s capabilities, and while I’ve run into limitations on printing long text documents and panoramas (just exactly the sort of thing you’d *want* to print on roll paper) via the “Notes” function in Phomemo’s App, I wondered what the limitations would be on printing PDF documents […]

GJK has also sent the Tape Pals Omega XL cassette on its way to Gregory S with his contributions, so *that* one is another step closer, and moving very briskly. I have no idea what I’ll put on it when it gets back to me, but I am invariably inspired by what the other two […]

Currently in the Eyeholes: Honestly, if you’re a Sherlock Holmes fan and you haven’t seen Bill Pullman‘s take on Holmes and Ben Stiller’s take on Watson, you’re seriously missing out. (:

The new Executive Order defining only two sexes based on gender at conception (and ignoring the 1.7% of the population born Intersex – who knows what they are now): https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/defending-women-from-gender-ideology-extremism-and-restoring-biological-truth-to-the-federal-government/ The NIH definition of gender at conception: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK222286/ “During early development the gonads of the fetus remain undifferentiated; that is, all fetal genitalia are the […]

Weapon of Choice: “Ghost Chocolate” 1957 Olympia SM3 #998587

Weapon of Choice: 1986 Canon Typestar 4 #Q12013213

Now that’s a Mail Spread right there! Gunier’s new Thermal Print Camera is getting a workout. (: Ooh, some new super-flexi dip pen nibs! Gunier includes a postage stamp, which will have to wait until his next letter to be used, as I’m gonna be sending a box this time. He’s also got a new […]

Kristy sent a panel of my very favorite discontinued stamps, so she’s covered for the next 4 letters, fortunately I plan to get to the post office today or Monday, so the rest of the un-stamped mail will go out then. (: Currently in the Eyeholes: I’ve also started moving some of my favorite music […]

A delightful surprise in the mail for my birthday! :D It’s the Tape Pals Omega XL package, back from its round trip through Correspondents Gunier and Gregory! Lots of fun includes in the box. The TINY THINGS collection so far – A Mother Mary, a tiny Scrying Orb and an Acacia Stenophylla seed. The things […]

Campos missed out on typing on the card enclosed in this envelope. I shall have to rectify that and send it on to someone else… Currently in the Eyeholes: Wow, real momma’s boy, creepily so. Started drinking himself to death as soon as his best book was published. Very Catholic, I guess. He does describe […]

This might be the first time anyone has thought of making a ‘zine in Rolodex format! I can’t find any mentions of it being done before, so who knows? In any case, it’s done now, and you can make your own copies to put in your Rolodex and send to your Correspondents! 1) Download the […]

It all started after staring at my test “Jimbo Ziglet” 4-Panel Rolodex card and thinking about how many pages of thinner paper I could fit in that little matchbook and still have it work in a Rolodex. Prolly too small to be useful as a notebook, but you could make a ‘Zine out of it. […]